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Surrey fined for breach of ECB rules on agents

Warner failed to press his Ashes claims, the Australia batsman managing to score only six in his first match since his suspension for punching RootCameron Spencer/Getty Images

Surrey have been fined £1,000 by the ECB for using unregistered agents. The governing body’s Cricket Discipline Commission fined the county after they admitted and apologised for the offence.

The ECB said in a statement that Surrey had committed “a breach of regulations in that unregistered agents were engaged in the execution of recent employment transactions. After investigation, it is accepted by the Commission that Surrey did not wilfully breach the regulations, they admit the breach and apologise for it.”

David Warner failed to press his Ashes claims, the Australia batsman managing to score only six in his first match since his suspension for punching Joe Root in a Birmingham bar.

Warner was sent to Australia A’s tour to southern Africa for match practice but…